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Akasazh , to science_memes in Botany
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Coburninnit, in case you were wondering.

./s

django , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

Come for the memes, stay for the wiki and AUR.

elfpie , to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 4th

I decided to give a chance to Super Virus Defense. It was made by the brother in law of my best friend, but it was described as tower defense so it sat ignored for over a year. I play on PC, but it’s very mobile like. I’m addicted. There’s a grind element to buy upgrades, but it’s been so non mindless that it reminded me of how big companies just choose to make you suffer. Specifically, I can grind while completing higher difficulties in previous levels or by playing the endless mode.

Playing it made me want to create a post with all the Brazilian indie games that I really liked over the years.

Norodix , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

I also felt a little underwhelmed, I thought the installation would be more difficult.

If you are not in it for the memeing I find it to be a great distro.

vort3 ,
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I think any person with ability to read and follow instruction can install arch in 15 minutes (excluding waiting for things to download), there is nothing special about it.

missingno , to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 4th
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Same as last week.

Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - I'm back on my bullshit again. Uzuki arc was fun, but when it comes time for bracket I gotta lock in. And by lock in, I mean still play like a clown.

Splatoon 3 - Didn't have too much time to practice this week, but had one good session. Really trying to work on more actionable callouts, coordinating with our specials and planning a push together rather than merely announcing things after they happen.

Persona 4 Golden - Still just post-Kanji dungeon. At the rate I am going I will finish this game... someday.

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story - Man, forgot how annoying it was that you have to always go for weapon breaks against bosses or else you miss their blueprint forever. Also, RHDN shutdown has me wondering, if/when the third game's translation patch ever gets finished, where do I even look to find out about it?

Slay the Spire - I can quit any time I want, I swear.

Mahjong Soul/Riichi City/IRL mahjong - Came dangerously close to losing my Master 1 rank on Soul, but got a few wins so I'm safeish now. I know I'm too reckless and I'm trying to work on that. I did play one of the best games I've had at club this week, had the discipline to fold several tempting hands and it turned out to be correct every time. Sometimes protecting second place through smart play is more satisfying than lucking into first.

seliaste ,
@seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I had a lot of problems finiahing Persona 4 too after the Kanji dungeon but I think it was worth it

IndiBrony , to science_memes in Megacerops
@IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

I think about this every time I use a swan neck rest in snooker.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6791/production/_86531562_snooker_generic_getty.jpg

Akasazh ,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

I think of a spider. Because that’s what they are called.

jeffw , to world in AP review of Venezuela opposition-provided vote tallies casts doubt on government’s election results
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

Where are all the people calling the US gov’t shills? Why aren’t they all over this post like the other ones?

I’ll admit I was wrong. I thought there was no way the vote had that large of a gap

Skua ,

This post is on .world, which is defederated from some of the largest instances that would be likely to do so

Maggoty ,

Even on .world they tried.

Siegfried ,

The gap may actually be bigger, +5M expatriates were not allowed to vote.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

I’d never really considered how voting works when you’re living in another country but still have citizenship. Do you only get to vote in national elections?

Siegfried ,

This may change with the country but generally speaking, it’s a little more complicated than voting from home. You have to go to your nearest embassy to fill papers and anounce that you will be voting in country X a few months prior to the ellection.

Embassies usually get just a few ballot boxes when not only one, so you can expect a few thousands or so voting in the same box, which makes horrendous queues.

Some “more civilized” Countries also offer more efficient ways to vote when you are abroad, like voting through mail. Which is nice.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Calling the AP US government shills or the government shills shills?

I’ll say it. The US government should keep its piehole shut and let the international media, like the AP, handle this one, the evidence is damning by all accounts and their contributions to any discourse on South American elections are a negative.

Dead_or_Alive ,

Nah, the US should take point on this. If your goal is to get nothing at all done, then fine let AP and international organizations handle it.

If you want accountability and consequences then the US will need to get involved.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

So you want to invade another nation then.

Dead_or_Alive ,

Not at all what I said.

But the fact that you automatically implied that is what it means, is the reason the USAs word carries some weight internationally.

We speak softly and carry a big stick.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

They just can’t help themselves

Dead_or_Alive ,

Nah homie, there is just no other country in the world that can project power at the distance and scale that the US can. Not our fault y’all are weak AF.

sandbox ,

What do you propose that the US should do?

Dead_or_Alive ,

Exactly what we are currently doing. Provide an incentive for free and fair elections. If the election is proven to be stolen then I’d assemble a coalition of local forces to oppose Maduro. Hopefully backed up by other regional players.

Otherwise you’ll see more aggression from dictators like him. Venezuela getting aggressive with more than one regional neighbor like Guyana could be the outcome if Maduro isn’t checked.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Guyana–Venezuela_crisis_(2023-…

merthyr1831 , to fediverse in PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communities

There’s also all of these communities on Reddit if you’re truly unhappy that the volunteer owned and run social media you signed up for isn’t being astroturfed with US-Israeli state press releases.

FundMECFSResearch ,

I’d like not too see lemmy.ml people denying tianmen square or russian war crimes

Blaze ,

Avoiding Lemmy.ml communities should achieve that

merthyr1831 ,

As I said, feel free to log into Reddit dot com if your goal is to experience the internet fed to you by the US state department. Spamming muh tiannamen or muh russia when you’re clearly fine with SOME war crime denialism is the sign of a mind that clearly isn’t ready to graduate from the funko pop subreddit.

FundMECFSResearch ,

LOL

Laser , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

No longer using Arch, but I can tell you what I liked about it:

  • it basically only does what you explicitly tell it to, making the setup very flexible. There’s no stuff the OS hides behind its own tools really (resulting in little to none “DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE” situations).
  • It is very up to date and the rolling release generally works well, there’s no pain with changing releases or anything.
  • The package manager, including creating your own packages, is dead easy and fast. Caveat is that once you look deeper into it, it gets more complex as you need to keep a container for clean building around. Still, with the right tooling, it’s very manageable.
  • As already mentioned, the documentation is very good.
  • Packages are very close to upstream, in most cases just being something like “./configure; make; make install”.
  • Generally very unopinionated.
vort3 , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?
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What do you mean by people being obsessed over Arch?

Archlinux is Linux, it’s just a minimal distro that allows you to only use whatever you want to use. I have no idea what’s with being obsessed over it other than «use arch btw» which became a local meme recently.

octopus_ink , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

Fresh packages all the time without any hassle or snaps/flatpak/appimages, and theoretically never needs to be reinstalled. What’s not to love.

OP was pretty fucking snarky though, ngl. Some of us enjoy using arch based distros without being walking memes, and far more people complain about people talking about arch than actually talk about arch these days.

Kerb , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?
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afiak the prase “i use arch btw” is mostly sarcasm,
instead of genuine appreciation.

its mocking the stereotype of arch users that constantly bring it up to sound smart or feel supperior.

think of arch like “vintage car culture” with a touch of minimalism.
its restricting and breaks all the time,
but thats kinda the point because fixing it becomes a part of your lifestyle.

nous ,

I use it precisely because it doesn’t break all the time and is less restricting… Don’t know where you got the idea it is not.

cupboard ,

I also feel like it "breaking all the time" was part of the stereotype itself. I stopped using Arch because it was stable for almost 3 years and part of the point of using it in the first place was learning Linux by fixing stuff that broke - except that stuff never broke so I grew bored of it.

BurnedDonut , to linuxmemes in Based on a true story

There is no such thing as immutable or uncorruptable OS. My late father would always find a way to fuck up the laptop I setup for him. He would even come back with errors that I’ve seen for the first time and our conversation would go like this:

Me: How did this happen? My Father: how should know? It was like this when I turned it on. Me: what did you do before you turned it off last time? My Father: I was on Facebook, played some backgammon and watched some YouTube. Me: …

I miss him and I would gladly give everything to have him bother me with his laptop problems one more time. I hope that he is getting some good support where ever he is.

drasglaf ,
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He would even come back with errors that I’ve seen for the first time

My father does this as well. And it’s always the computer because it’s old and it plays tricks on him. He’s never done anything wrong!

BurnedDonut ,

He never blamed the computer directly because he knew I bought a new laptop for him. But he would say it happened on it’s own so…

oconnordaniel ,

I believe the saying goes.

If you make something idiot proof, the universe will produce a more advanced idiot.

(Not to belittle your late father’s intellect)

BurnedDonut ,

No offence taken. He was not a tech savvy person.

BaalInvoker , to linux in So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

Let me ask you… Why would you do something like that? I mean, Arch is just a piece of software, why would you wanna be obsessed with or turn it your personality?

Don’t you have anything more meaninful to worry about?

MonkderVierte , to science_memes in Potoos
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